The Original Biff

Sunday Clippy Day.

Biff Baker was a typical forties Sunday only adventure strip about a football player who falls from on adventure into the other. Signed "by Henry Lee" but was actually written by NEA comics editor Ernest ‘East’ Lynn and drawn by Hank Schlensker. Schlensker had been Roy Crane's assistant on Buzz Sawyer and went on to draw it again from 1947. Hwere are the first and last weeks. It seems the storyline was ended unceremoniously in the last week of january 1946 after which it was replaced by the stylistically similar but much more action oriented detective strip Vic Flint. 

Good Sport

Thursday Story Strip Day.

From the same Philadelphia paper as my previous 1941 posts, here is another forgotten strip by a forgotten artist: Bif Baker by Henry Lee, a pseudonym for Henry Schlensker. After creating Bif Baker, he went on to become Roy Crane's assistant on 'Buz Sawyer' from 1946 and he continued the strip with Edwin Granberry from 1974 to 1983.